It’s back. The Patriot Act – that grotesque, ever-mutating, hydra-headed monstrosity from the Bush-Cheney Little Shop of Horrors – has risen again, this time with an added twist of Orwellian intrusiveness from the Obamacans. Since 2006, Team Bush, and then Team Obama, have allowed the little-known, hugely powerful National Security Agency to run a daily […]
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The corporate mad dogs of Citizens United
As feared, our people’s democratic authority has been dogged nearly to death by the hounds of money in this election go ’round, thanks to the Supreme Court’s reckless decree in the now infamous Citizens United case. A little-reported consequence of the malevolent decision: It has unleashed mad-dog corporate bosses to tell employees how to vote. […]
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Letters to the Editor 10/22/09
BEST STRIP “The idea of Obama,” in This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow [IT, Oct. 15] is not only the best strip of the year, it’s also the best political commentary of the year as well! I catch heat on Facebook, Myspace Blog, etc., because people still believe the idea of Obama and the actual Obama […]
